William Newton Jr.
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William Wallace Newton Jr. (1917 - 1960)

William Wallace Newton Jr.
Born in McMinnville, Yamhill, Oregon, United Statesmap
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Died at age 42 in Quang Tri Province, Vietnammap
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Biography

William was born in 1917. He passed away in 1960.
CPO William Newton Jr. served in the United States Navy in the Vietnam War
Service started: 16 Dec 1936
Unit(s): Military Assistance Advisory Group
Service ended: 17 Feb 1960
Roll of Honor
Chief Petty Officer William Newton Jr. was Killed in Action in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

William W. Newton, Jr. was born 29 November 1917 in McMinnville, Oregon, a son of William Newton Sr (1869-1935) and Amy Elizabeth Doney (1893-1965). His family lived on a farm in Yamhill County, Oregon.[1], [2]

At the time of enlistment in the U.S. military on 16 December 1936, he lived in Newberg, Oregon.[3], [4] In 1940 he was living in Sand Point Election Precinct, King County, Washington and working at the Naval Air Station as a radioman 2nd class.[5] He re-enlisted in the Air Corps on 18 November 1942 in Portland, Oregon.[6]

He married Clara Louise Oehmer (1920-1997) on 5 January 1944 in Cook County, Illinois.[7] They had a son, William Wallace “Skip” Newton III (1945-2006) By 1948 the family had moved to Clinton; Worcester County, Massachusetts.[8]

In 1958 he was reassigned to the war in Vietnam. At that time he was a Chief Aviation Electronics Technician (ATC), Chief Petty Officer (CPO) in the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Naval Advisory Group (NAG), U.S. Navy. In Navy terms, ATC was his occupation code; CPO was his rank.[3] The MAAG was sent to train and assist South Vietnamese armed forces in an effort to stem the rising influence of Communism.[9]

On Wednesday, 17 February 1960, William and two others were on a flight from Saigon to Hue when their plane, a Douglas DC-3 cargo plane, was shot down and crashed into Hòn Cháy Mountain near Da Nang, Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam.[3], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15] At the time of his death in February 1960, William was one of only a few hundred U.S. men in Vietnam. That same year, the number of official US military advisers in the country was increased from 327 to 685 at the request of the South Vietnamese government.[16]

William was the first Oregonian to die in Vietnam. His body was recovered and returned to his widow and son in Massachusetts. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.[17], [18], [4]

CPO Newton is remembered on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.: Panel 10E, Line 107.[19] He is also remembered on the Oregon Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial at Washington Park in Portland, Oregon: Wall ID: 1959-65-001.[20]

Sources

  1. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4ZG-PGD : accessed 6 March 2019), William W J R Newton in household of William W Newton, Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States; citing ED 447, sheet 6B, line 56, family 153, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1506; FHL microfilm 1,821,506.
  2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCSN-9CR : accessed 6 March 2019), William W Newton Jr. in household of William W Newton, Precinct 13, Yamhill, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 3A, line 35, family 60, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1958; FHL microfilm 2,341,692.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 ”United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXXB-49B : 12 December 2014), William Wallace Newton, 17 Feb 1960; citing , , South Vietnam, panel 10E, line 107, NARA NAID 571687, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941. Microfilm publication M1916, 134 rolls. ARC ID: 596118. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2375&h=1155528&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1500
  5. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K99B-47T : 14 March 2018), William W Newton, Sand Point Election Precinct, King, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 17-179, sheet 2B, line 59, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4346.
  6. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMF9-D7Y : 5 December 2014), Warren W Newton, enlisted 18 Nov 1942, Portland, Oregon, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
  7. ↑ Cook County Clerk, comp. Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records. Cook County Clerk’s Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008. Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. - https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1500/records/1501118
  8. ↑ The Price & Lee Co.’s Clinton 1948 Directory; page 200. Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=USDirectories&indiv=try&h=455622199
  9. ↑ ”Guide to the Vietnam Military Assistance Advisory Group, Team 58.” George Mason University Libraries, Fairfax, Virginia - https://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/vietnammaagphotos.html
  10. ↑ "United States Casualties of the Vietnam War, 1956-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXZW-HP1 : 12 December 2014), William Wallace Newton, NARA NAID 306742, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
  11. ↑ Death Certificate. National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.; NAI Number: 302021; Record Group Title: General Records of the Department of State; Record Group Number: Record Group 59; Series Number: Publication A1 205; Box Number: 395; Box Description: 1960-1963 Viet Nam A - Z. Ancestry.com. Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=deathsamericancitizenabroad&indiv=try&h=220373
  12. ↑ ASN Database, Aviation Safety Network, Flight Safety Foundation - https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19600217-0
  13. ↑ Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives, Geneva, Switzerland - https://www.baaa-acro.com/zone/thua-thien-hue-province?page=1
  14. ↑ Access to Archival Databases (AAD), Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File, as of 29 April 2008, Vietnam War, National Archives, Military Records
  15. ↑ “U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War for Home-State-of-Record: Oregon.” Page 32. The National Archives, Military Records, https://www.archives.gov/files/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/or-alpha.pdf
  16. ↑ Vietnam Perspectives – Vol. 1, No. 1, Aug., 1965. Chronology of Events Relative to Vietnam, 1954–1965, p. 20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30182459 Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 10 December 2017), memorial page for William Wallace Newton, Jr (29 Nov 1917–17 Feb 1960), Find A Grave: Memorial #81197587, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Bill Newton (contributor 47664259) .
  18. ↑ Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941. Microfilm publication M1916, 134 rolls. ARC ID: 596118. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2375&h=1155528&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1500
  19. ↑ Fold3; the interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial; photographed by Peter Krogh; http://go.fold3.com/thewall
  20. ↑ Article: “Oregonians who died serving in the Vietnam War.” Posted by The Oregonian/OregonLive, 27 May 2017. - https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/oregonians_who_died_serving_in.html

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William W. Newton's Name on the Vietnam Memorial Wall
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